playwright

name	playwright
description	Use when you need to scrape pages, extract structured data or interact with web interfaces via headless browser automation without using screenshots.
status	active
tier	operational

Playwright Skill

Purpose: Browser automation via headless Chromium. Scrape pages, extract structured data, and interact with web interfaces. Returns clean JSON, not screenshots.

Token efficiency: ~200-500 tokens per page vs 20,000-30,000 for screenshot-based approaches.

When to Use

• Tech Watch repo checks: retrieve changelogs, release notes, README updates from GitHub
• Scraping any page for structured data (pricing tables, product lists, article text)
• Checking if a URL loads and what it contains
• Extracting links, headings or specific content from a page

How to Use

The run.js script accepts a URL argument and returns JSON. Run it from your vault root using the vault-relative path to this skill's scripts directory.

node "Council Chamber/Skills/Playwright/scripts/run.js" https://example.com

Output format:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Page title",
  "text": "Cleaned body text...",
  "links": [
    { "text": "Link text", "href": "https://..." }
  ]
}

Requirements

Playwright must be installed before first use. Run these once with explicit approval from your vault root:

npm install playwright --prefix "Council Chamber/scripts"
npx playwright install chromium

Chromium binary installs to Council Chamber/scripts/node_modules/. Add this path to your AI interface's ignore configuration so it does not appear in context reads.

Troubleshooting

• Empty text: If a page returns empty text, switch waitUntil to networkidle and retry.
• Browser binary not found: Run npx playwright install chromium from the scripts directory.
• Cloudflare blocking: Add playwright-extra and puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth if a site blocks the script.
• Timeout: Increase all timeouts to 15 seconds and switch to networkidle for slow pages.
• Always close the browser in a finally block. This is already handled in run.js.

Invocation

Tell your AI interface what you need in plain English. Example prompts:

• "Scrape the changelog from github.com/[repo] and summarize what's new."
• "Check the releases page at [URL] and tell me what shipped since [date]."
• "Extract the pricing table from [URL] as a JSON array."

Your AI reads this SKILL.md, runs the script, and returns the data.

Related

• Script: Council Chamber/Skills/Playwright/scripts/run.js

External Orientation

[!info] Ambassador Doctrine Active This skill operates under the [[Council Chamber/Protocols/Governance/Ambassador Doctrine]]. Primary strategy: Āsana: browser automation is an intelligence retrieval tool; extract, clean, and return before acting. Secondary: Vigraha (assert data quality; surface failed or blocked scrapes rather than returning corrupted output), Saṃśraya (the browser always closes in a finally block; no persistent external state). Playwright does not write to external surfaces. It reads. The read-before-act posture is the doctrine embodied.

Refinements

(Empty, populated when execution mistakes occur during sessions.)

Also installs standalone from https://www.infinitegameos.io/skills/playwright (dual-distribution: this copy lives in your vault, the public plugin updates independently).